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I messed up my XWindows for one user, "todd".
How?
>>>Not sure. Maybe by overwriting the /home/todd dir (Fedora) with that from my RH 9.
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Describe the components.... What do you see on the screen.
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Rectangles that have remanents of a window, but the three of them are much smaller and near transparent. They seem like dialogs that are missing text.
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switchdesk gnome
or
switchdesk kde
Which ever you prefer.
Then try to start an X session as todd.
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Set runlevel to 3 and todd cannot create X; joe can. Appears that XWindows has a permission problem with /tmp.
Todd
Mark Street wrote:
>On Thursday 11 March 2004 01:50 pm, Todd Cary wrote:
>>>>I messed up my XWindows for one user, "todd".
>>>>>>How?
>>>>>If I login as any other
>>user, all is fine, but as "todd", there are some strange shaped
>>components on the screen. I deleted the user "todd" and re-created him,
>>but the problem persists.
>>>>>>Describe the components.... What do you see on the screen.
>>>>>This appears to be a good opportunity to learn a little more about
>>XWindows on my "play computer". What should I look at?
>>>>>>>From the command line as user todd, run
>>switchdesk gnome
>or
>switchdesk kde
>>Which ever you prefer.
>>Then try to start an X session as todd.
>>>
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